Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst

Grow your career as a SWAP Reporting Business Analyst with an innovative global bank in Tampa, FL. Contract role with strong possibility of extension. Will require working a hybrid schedule 2 days onsite per week.

Join one of the world's most renowned global banks and trusted brand with over 200 years of continuously evolving financial services worldwide. You will work alongside some of the smartest minds in the industry who are excited to share their knowledge and to learn from you.

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 10 years in financial services experience.
• 3 to 4 years of recent experience working with SWAPS reporting.
• Expertise with the reporting regulations: Part 43, Part 45, SEC, SBSD, FCA, EMIR Reporting, SMA EMIR Reporting, SWAP reporting.
• Business analysis and project management skills associated with the implementation of these regulations.
• Able to understand what the reporting requirement is.
• Strong understanding of OTC derivative trade lifecycles and associated market practices.
• Must understand the reporting flow.
• Must know the terminologies such as: compound trades, component trades, and baskets.
• Knowledge of transaction statuses like cancellation and termination.
• Experience in leading initiatives in Middle Office, Operations or Operations Control at a broker/dealer.
• Demonstrated experience in the successful implementation of projects, operational process change and improvement, preferably within capital markets operations.
• Experience in collecting, defining and documenting business and technology requirements, test plans and other project management artifacts.
• Experienced in consulting with project stakeholders, including the skills to facilitate compromises and resolve conflicting requirements.
• Knowledge and a technical understanding of OTC derivatives processing including product, process and system knowledge.
• Experience should ideally involve large scale implementations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to facilitate discussions.
• Ability to facilitate project planning sessions with varied stakeholders, sometimes having competing interests.
• A good knowledge of the techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling project and resources
• Ability to quickly grasp and master new concepts / requirements and related product / functional knowledge.
• Ability to create and deliver presentations to senior levels of management.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Previous work experience with the client.
• Consulting experience with a major consulting firm.
• Knowledge of recent regulations e.g. Dodd Frank, Basel.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitate the management and governance of projects meetings and working groups.
• Create and manage the development of individual project artifacts including scoping documents, project plans, score cards, risk & issue trackers, business requirements documentation, functional requirements documentation, traceability matrices, and test plans /scripts.
• Work with business, operations, technology and compliance functions in assessment of regulator’s requirements to ensure they are reflected in business requirements and user acceptance test cases.
• Identify key project risks, whether stated or not, and manage to resolution or escalate accordingly.
• Update section of the BRD.
• Working with different teams to develop test cases.
• Complete testing framework and BRD.
• Work with the asset classes, put in place the testing and run the test.